stuff....

ok, so...i have spent the past few hours going through stuff...looking for something specific, but keeping in mind many items known to be lost.....my bin in the kitchen for starts....and then several baskets behind the sofa in our bedroom....and then more bins positioned amongst the books on the shelves that flank the window.....and while i did find goodwill receipts to be put with the tax stuff..........i failed to find exactly what i was looking for...but i did find several items of interest.....like a touching note sent by chiara as thanks for a photo i took of her in amboise, when my current group of 8th graders ran into a former group abroad on a high school french class trip.....i must have mentioned her college connection, as she wrote that she would be sure to think of me when osu played michigan...and i found a sweet note from the mother of a local artist, written on one of his own art-cards...thanking me for letting her visit my garden on her last visit to d-ville......and i found scores of unsent postcards from far-flung spots...and my scores from my first dietetic registration exam back in 1980 (86%, not great but enough to pass)......as i type the cat has just skidded around the corner batting about a beaded necklace she has found somewhere in the back room, and when she noticed me she bolted up the steps, leaving the necklace for.....an after-nap romp perhaps?.....quite a humorous aside for this chilly day......the cat likely knows the exact location of each thing i search for, but she is keeping her own counsel